Frequently Asked Questions

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LatinTests.net features

What is LatinTests.net?

LatinTests.net is an online resource for Latin learners and Latin lovers. Our comprehensive and interactive quizzes will help you learn, and retain, Latin grammar and vocabulary.

Test your grammar with our interactive grammar tables, and your vocabulary with self-checking quizzes!

Our Grammar tables encompass adjectives, nouns, and pronouns of many kinds. Vocabulary is taken from the Oxford Latin Course series, and can be arranged in umpteen different ways.

What's new in this update?

LatinTests.net recently underwent a complete overhaul. As well as a facelift and a more usable interface, this update saw the rise to the fore of the dynamic, database-based vocabulary quizzes, which had previously been available in beta.

This vocabulary system gives the user far greater control over his or her quiz. As well as selecting Chapters of the Oxford Latin Course from which you want your words to be drawn, you can now set many other options — see below for details.

You can now create vocabulary Lists as well as Tests, so you can now use LatinTests.net to learn vocabulary as well as to revise it.

Get started on a vocabulary quiz by using the form to the right; click on "More Options" to set the more advanced options.

What's with the Search feature?

The LatinTests.net Search feature is not yet operational. It will hopefully be implemented at some point in the near future. The text inside the search box shows the accesskey for that field. In this case, the key letter is "X", but the other keys you have to press in combination with it vary across browsers:

in Internet Explorer, press Alt + X
...in Firefox, it's Shift + Alt + X
...and in Opera, press Shift + Escape, then X.

Advanced Quiz options

Chapters

Use these drop-down select boxes to set a chapter or range of chapters from which you want your quiz words to be taken. The chapters are those of the Oxford Latin Course series. LatinTests lists words not learnt in a specific chapter of the series, and listed in the back of the series books with no corresponding chapter, under “Chapter 0”.
Select the checkbox under the drop-down menus to have the words in your quiz appear as they do in the chapter in which they are found. The words will otherwise be shown as in the vocabulary lists at the back of Books III and IV.

Word Types

This sets which word types you wish to include in your quiz. Deselect “All Word Types”, which is selected by default, to get access to more advanced options. Within these, deselect “All Verbs”, “All Adjectives”, and “All Nouns” to get more advanced within those word types.

Type of quiz

This parameter, when creating your own quiz, determines whether it will be in list or test format. A list gives you the words and their definitions, ideal for studying or learning the vocabulary before moving on to a test. A test is one of LatinTests' trademark interactive and self-checking exercises, helping you learn vocabulary and grammar and making sure you never forget it.
Selecting “Testable” brings up options for the ‘Direction’ of translation in the test. This sets whether you will have to translate words from Latin to English, English to Latin, or both (“Alternating”).

Sort Results

This feature allows you, when creating your quiz, to determine how the results are to be arranged and displayed.
“Fully Alphabetically” sorts words alphabetically by the Latin word (not the English translation). “Fully Randomly” is not too tricky.
Sorting words “By Chapter” will have them organised into chapters. Within that, the options “Alphabetically” and “Randomly” set how the individual words are sorted under each chapter heading. “Separate by Word Type” organises the words further, so that they are organised in three tiers: they are sorted randomly or alphabetically, within each word type, within each chapter.
Sorting the words “By Word Type” produces corresponding results.

Perhaps some examples would be best here.
Sorting words from Chapters One and Two, as they appear in the chapters, List format—

“By Chapter” → “Alphabetically”:
Chapter 1
ambulat, he/she walks
casa, house, cottage
cena, dinner
...etc. thru Chapter 1
Chapter 2
aqua, water
fabula, story
etc.
“By Word Type” → “Randomly”; “Separate by Chapter”:
Adjectives

Chapter 1
paratus, ready
laetus, happy
fesus, tired
Chapter 2
iratus, angry
Adverbs
Chapter 1
mox, soon
non, not
Chapter 2
subito, suddenly
...and so on through Conjunctions, Nouns, Prepositions, and Verbs.

The first example would remain the same every time you created that quiz or refreshed the page. The second, because it organises the words randomly, would change every time you created that quiz or refreshed the page.

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